Post Office Savings Bank Staff - WW1 Panelled Room

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Reference WMO/77098

Address:

Blythe House

Blythe Road

West Kensington

London

W14 0Q

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Other
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A wooden panelled room with names of those who served on one side and photographs of those who died on an adjoining wall. The Royal Coat of Arms is placed above those who served. The room is believed to remain in situ behind some 1980s false walling. This remembers all those who fought in addition to those who died. (See PO Magazine Vol 14; p253 + SMLG 1920; p151 + other archive references The Blythe Street office is an Historic England Listed Building whose entry record "An office adjacent to the entrance hall was adapted in the early 1920s as a war memorial room; its fittings were removed in the 1980s." The building is now used as a store by the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Wall 1: THESE MEN OF THIS OFFICE SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR/ (632 names) WALL TWO: 1914 1919/ AND THESE MEN GAVE THEIR LIVES/ (93 names)

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